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Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Was Written by a Communist School Teacher

Music legend Billie Holiday is regarded as one of the most soulful American singers of the ‘50s. But her most powerful song, “Strange Fruit,” put Holiday on the federal government’s hit list, and ...
Yahoo

Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, ...
Time

My Father Wrote 'Strange Fruit.' The Capitol Rioters Had a Lot in Common With the Lynch Mobs That Inspired That Song

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Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Lyrics Made the Government Hunt Her Down for 20 Years

Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' lyrics were controversial to some and powerful to others. The song was Holiday's way of protesting the lynching of Black people during the Jim Crow era, and it angered ...
PBS

Billie Holiday’s Searing “Strange Fruit” Still Has the Power to Startle

There are often false narratives we tell ourselves so that we can simplify, and beautify, the past and erase aspects of the present that we are uncomfortable with. Take the view that the olden times ...
Phys.org

Strange fruit: How Billie Holiday's performance of the anti-lynching song politicized Black consciousness

Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled "Professional ...
insider.si.edu

Strange Fruit; Fine and Mellow

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Billie Holiday (1915–1959,) an ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Strange Fruit’: Still Haunting at 80

There have been many works of art protesting America’s troubled history of race relations. Few are more powerful than “Strange Fruit.” One of the most haunting songs emanating from the heinous Jim ...
New York Magazine

Strange Fruit

"It still amazes me how twelve lines can change the world," says Joel Katz, the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol, the ...